Dr Sohaib Nazir is a Clinical Senior Lecturer and Consultant Cardiologist in cardio-oncology, multimodal imaging and heart failure at King’s College London and Royal Brompton Hospital. He is accredited in CMR and Cardiac CT by both EACVI and SCCT/SCMR and has achieved board accreditation from the International Society for Cardio-Oncology, and also accredited in transthoracic echocardiography. He undertook his PhD at King’s College London to investigate novel methods of myocardial perfusion with Cardiac MRI and PET following the award of a Medical Research Council Training fellowship. He was subsequently awarded with an NIHR Academic Clinical Lectureship prior to his current appointment. He is leading on several clinical studies related to multimodal imaging in cardio-oncology and coronary artery disease.

More recently, as part of a team effort at King’s College London, his team was awarded with a £13million grant from the Medical Research Council to install one of the UK’s two Total Body PET scanners, which represents a new era for next generation imaging. He hopes to use this in the future to improve diagnosis and treatment for patients. He has a passion for teaching and holds a postgraduate certificate in healthcare education and is the current Chair of the BCS Education Committee.

He supervises fellows and research students at King’s College London and has received recognition for his excellence in teaching, including the award for best clinical teacher at St George’s University of London in 2015. Furthermore, he plays a pivotal role in designing and delivering educational programs, including serving as the module co-lead for the Clinical Applications of Medical Imaging in the MSc in Healthcare Technologies course at King’s College London.

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